I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write

James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verbs to said, replied, asked, and answered and only when absolutely necessary.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway

My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.

I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale